Evolutionary analysis of postgraduate programs in production engineering in Brazil from 2013 to 2018
International Journal of Development Research
Evolutionary analysis of postgraduate programs in production engineering in Brazil from 2013 to 2018
Received 19th April, 2020; Received in revised form 27th May, 2020; Accepted 29th June, 2020; Published online 30th July, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Nathália de Miranda Barbosa and Armando Araújo de Souza Júnior. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The strictu sensu post-graduation has an important role in the technological, economic, and social development of a country. In recent years, the offer of courses of this modality has intensified in Brazil in the most diverse areas of knowledge. The objective of this work is to present an evolutionary analysis of graduate programs in production engineering in Brazil from the years 2013 to 2018. To achieve the proposed objective, descriptive exploratory research was carried out. Data were collected from CAPES 'Sucupira Platform. The survey results indicate that strictu sensu graduate programs in production engineering remain concentrated in the South and Southeast, regions that also concentrate a significant portion of the country's economic activity. The increase in the offer of courses was quantitatively small, the number of students, dissertations and theses defended and, program publications did not have significant variations in the analyzed period, which indicates the existence of opportunities for the expansion of graduate programs in production engineering in the country, mainly in the North, Northeast and Midwest regions.
